Business Intelligence and Analytics

Practicing business intelligence allows your company to transform raw data into sets of insights for targeted business growth. The business intelligence and analytics community on BrightTALK is made up of thousands of data scientists, database administrators, business analysts and other data professionals. Find relevant webinars and videos on business analytics, business intelligence, data analysis and more presented by recognized thought leaders. Join the conversation by participating in live webinars and round table discussions.

Great Data – data that is precisely accurate, complete and delivered “in time” delivers the following benefits to the Data-Centric Warfighter. It…

• Hones the effectiveness of the warfighter to a razor’s edge
• Improves warfighter focus in the field
• Can off-load a multitude of distracting tasks from the warfighter
• Enhances the warfighter’s agility and adaptability

But, how much of your data is “Decision Ready”?

In this webinar, Doug Orman, President of THOR International, will discuss how a strategic approach to enterprise data management can help you to exploit the power of your data to the benefit of the warfighter.

Register now to learn how to ensure your organization has the Great Data required to enhance, protect, sustain and care for the warfighters of today and tomorrow.

In this 50 minute webinar we'll explore how modern SaaS, PaaS and IaaS systems are achieving unprecedented levels of scale and performance by implementing In-Memory Computing (IMC) technologies. We'll cover which types of services will benefit most from IMC, how IMC compares to alternative technologies, and how to get started evaluating this game-changing technology.

This webinar is a must-see for technology leaders in the transition to high-speed, low-latency Saas, PaaS or IaaS services. Register Now.

This is the second in a series of webinars describing the Information Management disciplines as defined within the DAMA DMBoK.
Webinar #2 looks at the Information Management discipline “Master & Reference Data Management”.
Topics addressed include:
•What Master Data and Master Data Management
•The difference between Master and Reference Data & why it matters.
•Different types of MDM Architectures ranging from a full central hub, through hybrid to virtualised
•Why identifying the correct architecture for your types of Master Data is important.
•A MDM reference architecture, the typical components in the reference architecture and how to identify & select the right tooling for your environment and MD business needs.
•Single domain and Multi domain MDM solutions, the advantages & disadvantages and how to determine what's appropriate for you.
•Issues encountered when building the case for MDM.

Apache Ambari is the only 100% open source management and provisioning tool for Apache Hadoop. Recent innovations of Apache Ambari have focused on opening Apache Ambari into a pluggable management platform that can automate cluster provisioning, deploy 3rd party software and provide custom operational and developers views to the end user. In this session we will cover 3 key integration points of Apache Ambari including Stacks, Views and Blueprints and deliver working examples of each.

Everything your enterprise does, from marketing, supply chain, it operations, human resources, security and compliance and finance, is impacted by data. If you can instantly connect and analyze the multiple data floods from inside and outside your organization, you can transform your business models. Learn how to see the big picture in Big Data by exploiting 100% of relevant information – human information, machine data and business data.

By using an Issue--Solution--Impact diagram, three Tableau power analysts from Deloitte's analytics team will discuss actual problems organisations have faced and will share practical techniques for interpreting and communicating tonnes of heavy data into digestible content and visuals. Be ready for some amazing tips to take your dashboards to the next level!

This presentation aims to answer the following:

-How can data visualization and agile analytics be used to turn a mess of data into a clear, visual masterpiece?
-Where is the organisation spending too much money, and what can you do about it?
-Where is the business performing well, not well, and why?
-How can you automate many of the reporting processes to make everything simpler and quicker?

With Microsoft Lync - soon to be Skype for Business - predicted to become a top-three global telephony provider by 2016 (Gartner), it is no surprise many organizations are either deploying, or evaluating a deployment, of Skype for Business. But how do you measure the success of such an initiative?

In this exclusive presentation Eric Bauer, Global Product Director UC, will be joined by John Hand, a former Microsoft employee of 25+ years who is now IR’s Global Microsoft Alliance Director, to detail the 4 Measures for Success in a Lync/Skype for Business deployment.

During this webinar, Elena Martínez, Retail Specialist at Openbravo, will explain the keys to how to effectively create loyalty and what to expect from your commerce solution. Today, engaging customers goes beyond traditional loyalty programs and she will develop on this topic.

What Will You Learn?
- Keys to effectively create a loyalty program.
- What to expect from commerce solutions in regards to loyalty management.

Whether you are an insurer, reinsurer, broker or insurance service provider; everything you do is based on analytics. From underwriting to claims to agency and marketing, the smartest and most streamlined insurance business operations are driven by advanced and intelligent analytics.

But is your data ready? Are you an "Analytics Ready" insurer? Great analytics starts with great data management. In this webinar, watch as industry experts from Informatica and Hortonworks share industry trends and best practices to show you can become an "Analytics Ready" insurer.

Steven Hill: Senior Analyst for Business Technology and Solutions at Current Analysis
Sky Sharma: CIO at US Air Force
Sam Eaton: Director of Engineering Operations at Yelp

Abstract:

Got cloud? If you’re an SMB, you’ve already been there, done that. But are you really extracting maximum value out of your cloud hosted solutions?

SMBs use an average of five hosted services, between IaaS, hosted email and collaboration and business applications – and that number is expected to climb to almost ten cloud services by next year. Everyone’s dabbling, but SMBs crave the cloud sophistication of their enterprise-grade competitors.

- How are enterprises pivoting so quickly to respond to operational goals and drive bottom line results?
- How can SMBs use cloud functions to serve an ever-impatient customer base?
- Can SMBs realize the kind of growth and innovation through cloud services that enterprises expect?
- And more importantly, how do SMB CIOs get their hands on all of those pretty, shiny enterprise toys?

We’ll answer those questions and more with this expert panel of enterprise leaders who will share their strategies for success that SMBs can copy by using cloud services.

Lync 2013 (soon to be Skype for Business) is commonly known as an instant messaging client that includes voice and video capabilities within the enterprise. However, its ability to cross enterprise network boundaries and reach colleagues, partners, and customers across the globe via mobile phones or traditional telephony systems is often overlooked. The natural progression in collaboration may start with a quick instant messaging conversation but often leads to picking up the phone and calling someone to attain resolution.

Join us on Wednesday, March 25th at 2pm EST to learn about the capabilities of Lync Enterprise Voice, ways to implement it as a cost savings to your business, the impact of the launch of Skype for business and how the progression of enterprise voice collaborative tools are changing the way we run our businesses today.

Key Takeaways:
•What is Lync Enterprise Voice
•How can Lync Enterprise Voice be implemented
•Is Skype for Business different than Lync Enterprise Voice

Organizations of all types and sizes are awash in Big Data but lack the right tools to take advantage. Discover how to get the most from your own stores of information with a solution that provides everything from fast analytics and ease of use to ubiquitous to database and cloud services through smart dashboards and automatic updates.

Gartner has predicted 18-20% growth in SaaS market, and expects it to hit US $22.1 billion by the year 2015. They have also measured that SaaS adoption rate has increased many fold in the last few years (almost 71% of enterprises use SaaS solutions).

SaaS has come a long way from “hype” to “norm”. The key to this change is the confidence that has been built by the cloud/SaaS community by providing enterprise class security. Since, SaaS model of delivery has become a defacto standard of delivering products it’s critical for software providers to ensure that their SaaS product meets the required industry security standards. In this webinar, we will address the security aspects related to architecture, deployment and management of SaaS solutions.

Many organizations are leveraging social media to understand consumer sentiment and opinions about brands and products. Analytics in this area, however, is in its infancy and does not always provide a compelling result for effective business impact. Learn how consumer organizations can benefit by integrating social data with enterprise data to drive more profitable consumer relationships. This webinar is presented by Hortonworks and Clarity Solution Group, and will focus on the evolution of Hadoop, the clear advantage of Hortonworks distribution, and business challenges solved by “Consumer720.”

This webinar discusses how business users can prepare, integrate and cleanse big data – all without having to write code or attend costly training. SAS Data Loader for Hadoop is a new offering that enables you to overcome the gap in available Hadoop skills, unshackle IT and speed access to big data.

In this webinar we discuss and demonstrate:

Big Data Integration and Access
- Load relational data to and from Hadoop.
- Use Kerberos for authentication.
- Self-service access to profile, transform and filter data on Hadoop.

Based on IDC research, this webinar sets the record straight when it comes to misconceptions about data, analytics and IT.

The research findings, described in the white paper, “The CIO’s Chance of a Lifetime: Using Big Data and Analytics as the Ticket to Strategic Relevance”, identified four key findings that debunk common myths relating to analytics and the role of IT. Watch this video of IDC’s findings.

Use this 10-minute webcast to help your IT contacts understand the research findings and how they can take an active role in developing their companies’ analytics strategies.

In this joint webinar with CSC and Hortonworks, learn how a successful Hadoop project moves from use case discovery to successful implementation of analytic insights to the ability to deliver predictive analysis. Hortonworks and CSC combine forces on this webinar to help answer the question "How can I see results quickly and reliably in my big data project?". Whether your goal is to advance your career with a successful project, or exploit data insights for competitive intelligence, this discussion is for you. The first in a two part series, you will leave with a list of resources that will help you advance your project quickly, no matter where you stand today. This is intended for both a business and IT audience with at least a fundamental understanding of Hadoop as a concept

Digital targeting tools, data and advanced analytics have evolved to the point where you can understand and target desirable customer segments with customized messages. See a case study and learn best practices of how to use advanced analytics to focus and personalize your digital marketing on your most desired audiences.

Enterprises still don’t trust the cloud for their sensitive workloads. Are their concerns reasonable? Are they inevitable? In this briefing, Frost & Sullivan examines perceptions and realities associated with cloud security and recommends ways to mitigate risk.

Why You Should Attend:
• Understand the “risk premium” ascribed to the cloud versus the private data center.
• Learn why the cloud requires new processes for governance and compliance.
• Hear why traditional security approaches, such as asset protection, are not relevant to a cloud environment.
• Understand how to build a holistic approach to cloud security.

Digital targeting tools, data and advanced analytics have evolved to the point where you can understand and target desirable customer segments with customized messages. See a case study and learn best practices of how to use advanced analytics to focus and personalize your digital marketing on your most desired audiences.

Retailers face the challenge of getting customer data and communication right from every channel throughout the customer journey. Without verifying and cleansing data at the point of collection, costs are higher, customers are frustrated, and your reputation is at risk. Watch this webinar, presented by Thomas Brence, Director of Informatica Data as a Service Product Marketing, and Donal Dunne, Informatica Senior Marketing Manager for Retail and CPG, to see how Informatica Data as a Service can help retailers achieve accurate customer contact information every step of the way.

As more organisations shift operational costs to focus on innovation, traditional day-to-day IT running expenses are becoming squeezed. This presentation looks at how you can reduce your hybrid cloud running costs while at the same time improve the interaction between your production and development teams even if they reside in different clouds.

This session will show you how to:
· Provision hybrid cloud resources to control costs

During this webinar, Maarten Tromp, Director of Product Management at Openbravo, will review the benefits of truly modular ERP platforms compared to traditional ERPs, focusing on the main keys for growing business for both customers and partners.

What Will You Learn?
- Benefits of modular ERP platforms.
- Keys for growing your business based on ERP platforms modularity.

Some of the most critical data required to solve analytical problems in the healthcare and life sciences world lack the type of keys that we rely on so heavily in other domains. This session will focus on solutions to the fundamental data connectivity challenges in this area and how to enable impactful analytics on a few high value but disconnected healthcare data sources.

With more than 100 applications in production, a leading bank needed to reduce the time required to deploy and update its apps. By implementing an automation solution from HP, the bank reduced the application time-to-deploy by nearly 8X. Now the bank follows a seamless and standardized approach for deployment.

The world’s first data security intelligence solution, Secure@Source is designed to discover and locate where sensitive data reside, analyze its risk and help you prioritize and proactively implement data security controls.

During this webinar, Elena Martínez, Retail Specialist at Openbravo, will introduce you to some of the key features that the Openbravo Web POS solution provides, allowing associates and customers to enjoy a great in-store shopping experience. Web and mobile POS with assisted sale and inventory visibility capabilities. Empowered associates and delighted consumers in today’s omnichannel reality.

What Will You Learn?
- 6 key features a web POS solution should have for great in-store shopping experiences.
- Latest new capabilities included in the Openbravo Commerce Platform web POS module.

In an increasingly competitive marketplace, conversion rate optimization (CRO) tools, techniques, and tactics can be the difference between becoming a market leader or an ‘also ran.’

The practice of gaining as much as possible from existing traffic, visits, reads, and views is becoming a serious business, and a raft of tools are carving out their place in the field.

We’ll analyze the top solutions, revealing what techniques CRO practitioners use them for, how they are priced, how satisfied users are with them, how they score for each major feature, and what types of business use each product.

Check out VB Insight to access Stewart's Conversion Rate Optimization report, and to access the latest research on Marketing Technology:

Ingesting raw data into Hadoop is easy, but extracting business value leveraging exploration tools is not. Hadoop is a file system without a data model, data quality, or data governance, making it difficult to find, understand and govern data.

In this webinar, Tony Baer, Principal Analyst of Ovum Research, will address the gaps and offer best practices in the end-to-end process of discovering, wrangling, and governing data in a data lake. Tony Baer will be followed by Oliver Claude who will explain how Waterline Data Inventory automates the discovery of technical, business, and compliance metadata, and provides a solution to find, understand, and govern data.

Attend this webinar if you are:
--A big data architect who wants to inventory all data assets at the field level automatically while providing secure self-service to business users
--A data engineer or data scientist who wants to accelerate data prep by finding and understanding the best suited and most trusted data
--A Chief Data Officer or data steward who wants to be able to audit data lineage, protect sensitive data, and identify compliance issues

Join us on Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 11:00 AM PST/2:00 PM EST for this follow-up webinar to the Introduction to Apache Ignite(TM) (incubating) webinar, in which GridGain co-founder and EVP of Engineering, Dmitriy Setrakyan will take a deep dive into several coding examples so attendees can see directly some of the powerful capabilities of the Apache Ignite(TM) (incubating) In-Memory Data Fabric and just how easy it is to implement.

During this webinar, Xavier Places, Product Marketing Director at Openbravo, and Victor Gaspar, Project Manager at GMV (Openbravo Certified Partner), will explain how retailers can help enable their stores to be smarter and which technologies are helping them today to make this happen.

What Will You Learn?
- The concept of smarter stores and how it is related with the convergence of technologies like mobility and the Internet of Things.
- The importance of physical smarter stores in today's omnichannel reality.

Do you have network performance monitoring tools, but you still can’t figure out what the problem is? Are you experiencing VERY expensive downtime, resulting in customer churn? Do your IT organizations spend all their time pointing fingers? Do you want it to end? Attend this webinar on how to accelerate the mean-time-to-repair for network performance problems, without an actual war in the war room.

You have tons of data, but how useful is it? Explosive data volumes and expanding data footprints are a reality for every data services team today. This is why so many enterprises are turning to big data platforms like Hadoop. But could your data consumers get even more value from your big data investments? Big data can be useful but great data that is clean and trusted is better.

Refining big data into great data offers many benefits:
- Faster deployment and repeatable delivery of big data projects
- More comprehensive data for better contextual understanding of information by consumers
- More trusted information for higher quality business insights

Join this webinar, with host David Lyle of Informatica and guest speaker Mark Madsen, Research Analyst and CEO from Third Nature, to learn about the differences between what we're used to doing to manage data and how the new big data architecture changes what we do. Mark will review what's different with the data we're adding, how and when to prepare it (or ignore it), how new data changes our data architecture, and how to govern data so that you can expedite and amplify the return on your investments in Hadoop.

David will discuss how Informatica’s customers have successfully extracted more value from Hadoop for all sorts of applications like targeted marketing and fraud reduction by quickly ingesting, parsing, profiling, transforming, and cleansing big data into great data.

​Do you have network performance monitoring tools, but you still can’t figure out what the problem is? Are you experiencing VERY expensive downtime, resulting in customer churn? Do your IT organizations spend all their time pointing fingers? Do you want it to end? Attend this webinar on how to accelerate the mean-time-to-repair for network performance problems, without an actual war in the war room.

HDFS Transparent Data Encryption has been added to HDFS 2.6, and it finally provides with a solution to data encryption on a higher level than the OS one whilst remaining native and transparent to Hadoop. It aims cover the gap that existed for privacy and security regulations that many industries require, without having to introduce a third-party solution into the mix. This way, having encryption at HDFS level gives an optimal context for policy definition that is relevant to the industry, while remaining transparent to the applications running on Hadoop.

Join this webinar to learn:

-where HDFS Transparent Encryption sits within the Hadoop security framework
- an introduction to the technical details including how to create Encryption Keys and Encryption Zones
- Interaction with the Apache Key Management System (KMS) and the encryption/decryption data flow
- Future work in the space of Hadoop security in general, and encryption in particular

In this presentation, Lee Carter, VP EMEA at Bright Computing, will talk about Hadoop in the cloud, and how to leverage Hadoop without necessarily having to invest in on-premise infrastructure. Lee will explore the challenges faced when setting up, operating, using and managing Hadoop clusters. He will discuss user demand for Hadoop to be easier, and look at how the shortage of skilled Hadoop resources is impacting the industry. Lee will investigate the idea that better management tools can solve these challenges.

Processing data from social media streams and sensors devices alike, in real-time, is becoming increasingly prevalent and there are plenty open source solutions to choose from.

In this Webinar we will help practitioners decide what to use for which use case by comparing three popular ASF open source stream processing frameworks: Apache Storm, Apache Samza and Apache Spark Streaming.Last but not least, we will discuss best practices and review real-world customer use cases from the stream processing domain.

Using real life examples drawn from his work with enterprise clients, Maciej Zawadziński, CEO of Piwik PRO, will outline possible uses of open source analytics platforms in Enterprise-level environments, also indicating potential opportunities and challenges. A must-attend for anyone serious about enterprise sector and curious about business applications of open source software!

Being customer-ready means staying engaged with your customers with reliable communication that reaches its audience. Customer email addresses, phone numbers, and mailing addresses are at the heart of being customer-ready. Cleansing and verifying customer contact records reduces your costs, increases customer satisfaction, and helps improve your sales and marketing outreach. Informatica Data as a Service just announced new capabilities for its Phone Validation and Contact Record Verification products through new features that are helping enterprises reach customers while improving their overall data quality. Attend this webinar to be among the first to learn about new features of Informatica Data as a Service products, including a valuable global scope added to these products so you can validate contact data no matter where your customers are in the world. Register now to see the latest about Data as a Service’s industry-leading data quality services.

Amazon Redshift enables customers to innovate quickly using its fully managed and immensely scalable data warehousing solution. Tableau’s ability to connect directly to Redshift and leverage its massive computing power means even the most non-technical business user can quickly discover business insights with easy to use drag and drop visual analytics against mammoth data sets. Join Amazon Web Services (AWS), Mixpo and Tableau Software, an AWS Technology Partner, to learn how customers are leveraging both Tableau and AWS to tackle big data exploration projects and recognize business benefits in record time.

NTT Communications in collaboration with Capacity is hosting an exclusive webinar exploring effective strategies for carriers on the path to SDN.

Tighter margins, tougher competition and the insatiable demand for bandwidth in the telecoms market are all conspiring to force the pace of innovation at breakneck speed.

SDN seems to be the answer to most of these challenges, but as the concept continues to gain fervent adepts (and critics), it is becoming increasingly difficult to get unbiased information to make informed decisions.

This webinar will deliver a thorough analysis of SDN, discussing the technology behind the concept and where SDN sits in a carrier network, as well as key topics including:

Is Mobile Marketing Automation the silver bullet to your apps success? How do you successfully leverage mobile marketing automation solutions to meet your business needs? With an increasingly complex market landscape, which solutions are tailored to your business?

We surveyed 375 mobile developers with over 900 million monthly average users, analyzed 1.8 million apps in Google Play and the iOS app store, conducted 17 live interviews, and surveyed 19 MMA providers to find answers to these questions.

Join us to learn how to successfully leverage mobile marketing automation to your advantage.

Being customer-ready means staying engaged with your customers with reliable communication that reaches its audience. Customer email addresses, phone numbers, and mailing addresses are at the heart of being customer-ready. Cleansing and verifying customer contact records reduces your costs, increases customer satisfaction, and helps improve your sales and marketing outreach. Informatica Data as a Service just announced new capabilities for its Phone Validation and Contact Record Verification products through new features that are helping enterprises reach customers while improving their overall data quality. Attend this webinar to be among the first to learn about new features of Informatica Data as a Service products, including a valuable global scope added to these products so you can validate contact data no matter where your customers are in the world. Register now to see the latest about Data as a Service’s industry-leading data quality services.

When Apache Hadoop hit the market eight years ago, it rattled the cages of traditional BI and data warehousing professionals. Many speculated whether Hadoop would replace existing infrastructures, complement them, or become just the latest technology fad.

We now know Hadoop is not a fad and driving topic of discussion today is around how best to utilize Hadoop - even if you don't have big data.

If you're a technically savvy business professional who is still trying to understand how big data - and Hadoop in specific - impacts the enterprise data game, this webinar is for you. We'll highlight six common ways Hadoop is being used to support and extend the enterprise data warehouse ecosystem, with or without "big" data.

Today’s enterprises are challenged with capturing large amounts of data from a number of sources in a variety of formats, and then storing it in a cost-effective, timely manner. With your current data warehouse, this may seem overwhelming. It doesn’t have to be. With a Hadoop-based modern data warehouse, you can overcome these challenges and get meaningful insights from real-time data.

Want to learn how?

Join experts from Appfluent, Hortonworks, and RCG Global Services for a live webinar - where we will be discussing enterprise data warehouse optimization. You will learn how to:

•Rebalance your data warehouse by identifying unused data and resource-intensive workloads that can be moved to Hadoop.
•Seamlessly integrate your current enterprise data warehouse with a Modern Data Architecture.
•Better utilize data assets to reduce costs while realizing more value from your data.
•Develop a roadmap for implementing the Hadoop-based Modern Data Architecture and Data Lake.

A recent poll showed the key concern in deploying Skype for Business was around how to deliver an outstanding end-user experience, across an environment with multiple vendors.
This webcast will show you the key insights of how to not only oversee a successful Skype for Business deployment but how to make it work seamlessly with your existing unified communications environment, in turn, delivering an outstanding experience.